Collection of scrapbooks compiled by a young woman as a teenager and a college student coming-of-age during the Great Depression and World War II, documenting her activities, travels, and social life; Graydon attended public school in Columbia, S.C., and college in Virginia; includes letters, publications, and extensive amount of ephemera [programs, postcards, matchbooks, tickets, brochures, maps, etc.]. Two scrapbooks,1931-1939 (Vols. II and III), created by Sarah Graydon while a student at Trinity Church School and Hand Junior High School in Columbia, S.C.; include photographs of friends; a brief journal; programs to plays and musicals performed at the Columbia Music Festival; tickets to a Carolina-Clemson football game and to a speech given by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; letter, 28 Oct. 1931 from Yates Snowden to Mrs. Clint Graydon discussing the payment of dues to the Daughters of the Holy Cross and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Two scrapbooks, 1935-1939 (Vols. IV and V), kept by Graydon while attending Columbia High School, where Graydon served as editor of the high school newspaper; includes programs to graduations, plays, sports (high school, UNC v USC football game, Carolina Cup horse race, a game at Sewanee, the University of the South, etc.); detailed journal of dance partners; photographs from her senior year; prom souvenirs; and a portion of the signatures collected in petition of changing the school name to Johnson High School; and other activities. Three scrapbooks, 1938-1942 (Vols. VI and VIII and X), kept by Sarah Graydon while a student at Hollins College in Roanoke County, Va., recording dorm assignments; souvenirs from social events; notes from friends; official calendar of Hollins College; telegrams; bus tickets; report cards; photographs; souvenirs from "June Week" and Pawley's Island, both in South Carolina; a speech delivered by Eleanor Roosevelt at the college, and Hollins Centennial Celebration; invitations and tickets (Carolina Cup; Army-Navy game; University of South Carolina-Clemson football game); and contestants running for "Miss Columbia" beauty pageant. Scrapbook, 1939 (Vol. VII), documenting the family's trip to the 1939 New York World's Fair, including an extensive travel log with map, descriptions of historic sites visited en route along Route 1, list of things to see at the fair, notes describing various attractions; pictures of the family together at the fair; daily journal entries; souvenirs from "demonstration homes," the "hall of mirrors," and a program from the "Hot Mikado," the 1939 adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta; playbills from The Philadelphia Story, Hellzapoppin', and other attractions around New York City. Scrapbook, 1943 (Vol. XII), detailing home front activities in Columbia, S.C. during World War II. Includes a description on how to use war rations; clippings re war news, visit by Bob Hope, and wedding and engagement notices; includes correspondence and a calendar detailing Graydon's daily activities; a letter from the War Department; programs for "Silver Anniversary Program" a special war bond premiere at the Town Theatre and a football game played between the "Fort Benning 3rd Infantry (Cockades)" and the "Third Air Force (Gremlins)" at Carolina Stadium. Two scrapbooks, 1940 and 1966-1969 (Vols. IX and XIII), detailing two generation's participation in the Assembly Ball in Columbia, S.C, with clippings re the dance, the debutantes, and honors that Graydon received at the dance. Also includes a letter, 1969, from U.S. Senator, Strom Thurmond, to Sarah's daughter. Scrapbook Vol. I (1924 - 1935) preserves collection of Art Deco greeting cards celebrating Valentines Day, birthdays, Christmas, and a newspaper announcement of Graydon's sixth birthday; and scrapbook XI (1941), re a visit to Columbia from a college friend, Betty Mae Exall of Dallas, Texas.
